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Posted inLetters

Dangers of rabbinic burnout. No ‘blood libel’ at Sonoma State. Iran campaign is good.

by J. Readers March 20, 2026March 20, 2026

Avoiding clergy burnout Thank you to Laura Stein for her excellent opinion piece on clergy burnout and how seminaries might better prepare clergy for their own self-care in the field […]

an exterior wall says "Jerusalem Coffee House: Arts and Wellness Cafe"
Posted inBay Area

Oakland rabbis urge city to condemn cafe owner for violent rhetoric

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 24, 2025October 25, 2025
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Posted inOpinion

An AI chatbot will never know you like your rabbi does

Danielle Sobkin (Courtesy) by Danielle Sobkin October 22, 2025December 8, 2025
(JTA illustration by Grace Yagel)
Posted inReligion

We asked rabbis, ‘What are Jews most hungry to hear this new year?’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll September 22, 2025September 22, 2025
Rabbi Jennifer Frenkel and Rabbi Chase Foster
Posted inReligion

A High Holiday helpline for rabbis is flooded with millennial calls

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen September 19, 2025September 19, 2025
A protester's signs reference changes at the Education Department, among other Trump administration moves, at a rally against potential federal funding cuts at UC Berkeley at Sproul Plaza, March 19, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLocal Voice

56 local rabbis on the wrong way to stop antisemitism

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg May 29, 2025May 29, 2025
Rabbi Mira Rivera (center), the first Filipina-American to be ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, talks to students at Ammud: The JOC Torah Academy in 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Ammud)
Posted inU.S.

More rabbis of color are being ordained. Why aren’t they on the bimah?

TaRessa Stovall by TaRessa Stovall July 31, 2023July 31, 2023
Hebrew College, which sold its Newton Centre, Massachusetts campus in 2018, is now the second major rabbinical school in the United States to do away with rules barring students from dating or marrying non-Jews. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Hebrew College)
Posted inU.S.

In a shift, Boston’s Hebrew College will now ordain rabbis whose partners are not Jewish

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA February 1, 2023February 1, 2023
Sheila Katz, CEO of National Council of Jewish Women, during the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice. (Photo/Eric Lee for the Forward)
Posted inU.S.

How Jewish communal leaders woke up to abortion rights

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward July 26, 2022
Rabbis and cantors from the U.S. took supplies on a trip to see how the JCC in Krakow is responding to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
Posted inBay Area

‘It’s a privilege’: Bay Area rabbis in Poland bear witness to Ukrainian refugee crisis

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 21, 2022April 27, 2022

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